MAFF

matsalu nature film festival

matsalu loodusfilmide festival

The Ancient Woods

Program: Competition A

Director: Mindaugas Survila

Country of Origin: Lithuania

Year of Release: 2017

Duration of the Film: 86 min

Website: www.sengire.lt

Synopsis:

Filmed in one of the last remaining patches of old growth forest in Lithuania, The Ancient Woods is a place where the boundaries of time melt. A poetic and atypical nature film takes its viewers on the endless journey – from the forest thickets to the wolves’ caves and up to black stork’s nest, and then deep into the water to the underwater forest, returning after to the human beings inhabiting the edge of the woodland. There is no commentary, only rich, almost palpable sounds of the forest and the magical situations captured by the camera.